Exhaust valve



Nov. 22, 1949 J. 5. WALSH 2,488,949

EXHAUST VALVE Filed Nov. 17, 1945 I I9 /74 24 I l4 l7 I 1 ,9 l l 7 ll 2! L 'Q F I that the parts l8 will Patented Nov. 22, 1949 NT, oi-Pics:

EXHAUST VALVE Joseph S. Walsh, Cleveland, Fawlck'Airflex Company,

- Indiana Ohio, asslg'nor to The me, a corporation of Application November 17, 1945, Serial No. 62 19362 lemma. (cl. 251-'11s)- I This invention relates to quick-release valves,

sometimes called dumpf valves, controlled by a pressure in a pressure-fluid-supply line, :for

quickly venting fluid, otherwise than through the supply line, from a chamber previously charged with pressure fluid conducted intoit through the supply line. v

Its chief objects are simplicity, durability, reliability, economy of construction, facility of assembly and disassembly, sensitivity and quick effectiveness in a valve of this type.

f the accompanying drawing, the single figure is an axial section of a valve embodying my invention in its preferred form.

Referring to the drawing, the valve comprises a valve casing l0 formed with a packing gland H and provided with a packing nut l2 and packing member l3 for connecting it to a fluid-supply pipe l4 which is elsewhere provided such as a three-way valve (not shown) trolling the pressure within it. l

The casing I0 is formed also with a threaded nipple l5 for connectingit to a chamber that is to be charged with pressure fluid conducted to it through the supply pipe l4 and through the valve.

The valve is adapted to vent the chamber otherwise than through the supply pipe M because the supply pipe may be of such length or otherwise of such low flow capacity between this for convalve and the pipes pressure control valve that venting of the chamber through the supply pipe l4 would be too slow.

Slidably mounted in a small-diameter part of the casing Ill and in a spring-seat and valveguiding annular plug is screwed into the end of V groove and against with means the casing farthest from the supply-pipe I4 is a valve member I! which is bored from opposite ends and has a partition wall Ila left between the adjacent'ends of the two bores. hand bore, in communication with The rightthe supply pipe I4, is in communication, through a. circum-' ferentially spaced set of slide-valve ports l8, l8, with the inner face of the small-diameter part of the casing, in association with which face the member I 1 is adapted'to act as a slide valve and as a piston element, being slidable, by pressure fluid in the supply pipe M, to apo'sition such open into a larger-diameter part of the casing.

The member I1 is formed with an external,

annular stop flange 11b adapted to lieagainst an internal shoulderformed in the casing, at the end of its small-diameter portion, when the slide-valve ports l8 are wholly within the smalldiameter portion of the casing. I

The left-hand bor of the member which bore the fluid from the nipple I5 is to be vented, has leading to it a 'circumferentially spaced set of slide-valve ports l9, l9

l1, through 'ket 20 seated in the wall of'the member l1 and these ports'are lish communication between the interiorofthe nipple l5 and the left-hand, exhaust,.bore of the member l1 when the member ll-starts to move to the right. 4

Close to the ports l9, to the right of them, the

member I! is formed with an external, leftwardly-facing annular shoulder which merges,

with an annular groove at its base and in this said shoulder is mounted, and preferably cemented in place, a cross-sectionally circular, annular gasket 20, of rubberor the like, which is adapted poppet valve, against an annular, chamfered edge faceIZl formed on the annular plug lfi, the bevel of said face causing the gasket to be urged firmly against its seat on the member l1 and also effecting a tightjseal between said face andthe gasket.

For'del'aying communication beween the supply pipe and the interior of the nipple l5 until after the ports l9 have beenclosed and the gas! the chambe -charg-ing leftward movement of the valve member I I, andforv ur ing the valve member l1 to the right for opening the qulck-release exhaustwhen the-pressure in the supply pipe I4 is lowered, a slide-valve collar 22, which serves also as a stantly urged to the right by a helical compression spring 23 interposed between it and the spring-seat and valve-guiding plug 6, and is formed with an inset annular shoulder 24 adapted to be engaged by the flange I 1b of the valve member IT in the leftward movement of the latter, lost motion between the two being provided for proper timing. check-valve, as it open-s a flow passage in moving in one direction and closes it in moving the other direction.

In an annular groove formed on the outer face of the collar 22 circular sealing ring 25 adapted to effect a sliding seal between the moving to its extreme leftward member ll quickly to its extreme leftward position, closing off the ports I 9 and immediately thereafter effecting a more perfect seal of the exhaust by seating the to seat, in the manner of a piston element, is slidably mounted on thevalve membervll, is con- The collar 22 is in efiect'a is mounted a cross-se'ctionallycollar and the inner face of the gasket 20 against the chamfered valve-seat face 2|.

At the end of this mov-ementcontact oi the :der 24 has'moved the flange ill) with the she slide-valve collar 22 a little to the left and the ports it have opened into the large diameter part of the casing.

Thereafter pressure fluid from the supply pipe, acting against the collar 22, further compresses the spring 23 and by moving the collar to its dotted line position opens communication from the supply pipe M to the interior of the nipple l6, so that, with the ring 20 held seated by the fluid pressurein the right-hand bore of the member II, the chamber to which the nipple i is connected is charged with pressure fluid.

When such charging is completed, the pressures on the opposite end faces of the collar 22 becoming equal, the spring 23 moves the collar 22 rightward until the sealing ring 25 closes of! the nipple i5 from the supply pipe I4 and the shoulder 24 engages the flange ill), but with such light spring pressure as not to unseat the ring 20 against the force of the fluid pressure in the supply pipe.

The collar 22 is then in position, being already sealed to the interior wall of the casing, to act immediately, under both the force of the spring and the fluid pressure within the nipple I5, to unseat the ring 20 and partially open the ports i9, upon even a moderate lowering of the pressure in the supply pipe by venting of its remote control valve. Upon further moderate decrease of pressure in the pipe N the pressure of fluid exhausting through the left-hand bore of the member I'I forces the latter to its extreme rightward position and thus fully opens the ports I9, so that the chamber to which the nipple I5 is connected is quickly exhausted.

Modifications are possible within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A valve assembly comprising a valve casing having its wall formed with a supply passage, a chamber-charging passage and an exhaust passage, a valve structure mounted in sliding contact with the inner face of said casing and movable by the pressure of fluid in the supply passage to close the exhaust passage and movable in the opposite direction by preponderant effect of pressure in the chamber-charging passage over that in the supply passage for putting the chamber-charging passage in communication with the exhaust passage, said valve structure comprising an inner member slidably guided in the casing, an outer member surrounding and slidably mounted for lost-motion movement on the inner member and mated with the inner wall of the casing for full-closing valve coaction therewith, stop means limiting the movement of the outer member on the inner member in the exhaust-port-opening direction, so that further movement of the outer member in that direction compels like movement of the inner member, to open the exhaust passage subsequent to such coaction, and a spring interposed between the casing and said outer member for urging the latter in the said direction.

2. A valve assembly comprising a valve casing having its wall formed with a supply passage, a chamber-charging passage and an exhaust passage, a valve structure mounted in sliding contact with the inner face of said casing and movable by the pressure of fluid in the supply passage to close the exhaust passage and movable in the opposite direction by preponderant effect of pressure in the chamber-charging passage for putting that passage in communication with the exhaust passage, said valve structure comprising an inner member slidably guided in the casing, an outer member slidably mounted on the inner member 'and mounted for slide-valve coaction with the inner faceof the casing, and lost-motion stop means for limiting'the movement of the outer member on the inner member in the exhaustport-opening direction, the outer member being movable in the opposite direction on the inner member by the pressure of fluid in the supply passage to open communication between that passage and the chamber-charging passage after the inner member has been stopped in its exhaust-port-closing position.

3. A valve assembly comprising a valve casing having its wall formed with a supply passage, a chamber-charging passage and an exhaust passage, and a piston structure slidably mounted in said casing, said piston structure comprising valve means thereon movable by the force of fluid pressure in the supply passage for closing ofi said exhaust passage from the chamber-charging passage and other valve means thereon movable by the said iorce for opening communication from the supply passage to the chamber-charging passage, the said piston structure also mating as a piston with the inner face of the casing and having opposite effective piston faces exposed to fluid in the chamber-charging passage and the supply passage respectively while the exhaust passage is closed, for actuation of the piston structure by preponderance of fluid pressure in the chamber-charging passage over that in the supply passage to move the first mentioned valve means for opening the chamber-charging passage to the exhaust passage.

. 4. A valve assembly as defined in claim 3 in which the defined piston structure comprises a check-valve for opening the supply passage to the chamber-charging passage and yielding means urging the check-valve toward closed position for closing it upon equalization of pressure in the supply passage and the chamber-charging passage.

JOSEPH s. WALSH.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Great Britain May 5, 1938 

